Green-backed Firecrown
Sephanoides sephaniodes (Lesson, RP & Garnot, 1827)
Spanish: Colibrí Austral
The Green-backed Firecrown (Sephanoides sephaniodes) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 5.2 g and its bill is 22.0 mm long. It lives in Chile and Argentina. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 5.2 g, about 5 paperclips
- Bill
- 22.0 mm
- Lives in
- Gardens & towns
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
- Genus Sephanoides firecrowns
What Sephanoides share: Males have a fiery crown. One species lives only on the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
Where it lives · 5 countries
- Chile
- Argentina
- Uruguay rare visitor
- Falkland Islands rare visitor
- South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands rare visitor
Others in the genus Sephanoides
- Juan Fernandez Firecrown Sephanoides fernandensis
Sources
Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Groups: Dickinson & Remsen (2013) and McGuire et al. (2014). Weight, bill, habitat and movement: AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Countries: BirdLife International DataZone, checked against eBird records via GBIF. Red List status and trend: BirdLife International, the IUCN Red List authority for birds.
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